The Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) lexicon is currently accessible via two reference
dictionaries Wofram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (1958-1981) and The Assyrian
Dictionary of the University of Chicago (1956-2010). However due to a large number of new
cuneiform texts published during the last decades both dictionaries are outdated in part
especially in their earlier volumes. The Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries (SAD)
funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is meant to update both dictionaries. Without
any claim to be comprehensive SAD evaluates a strictly defined text corpus and a limited
amount of secondary literature. SAD pays particular attention to new words new verbal stems
and references which expand the distribution of a word or help to define its meaning form or
etymology. SAD volume L M N R contains 1354 lemmata among them 301 new words.
